# Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

The football tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics started on 20 July and ended on 2 August. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. Seven qualified countries did not participate, joining the American-led boycott in protest of the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Sixteen teams were divided into four groups:
* Group A (USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Zambia)
* Group B (Colombia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia)
* Group C (Algeria, Spain, GDR, Syria)
* Group D (Costa Rica, Finland, Iraq, Yugoslavia)
In the technical report following the competition, FIFA reported that: "Compared with the 1979 World Youth Tournament in Japan and the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, the standard of football at the Olympic Football Tournament was generally of an inferior quality".
The tournament was primarily hosted by Moscow and Leningrad in the Russian SFSR, with some group stage games in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and Minsk, Byelorussian SSR.

## Venues

Moscow :
| Central Lenin Stadium | Central Lenin Stadium | Central Lenin Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | Dynamo Stadium | Dynamo Stadium |
| Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 91,251 | Capacity: 50,475 | Capacity: 50,475 | Capacity: 50,475 |
| Minsk | Minsk | Leningrad | Leningrad | Kiev | Kiev |
| Dinamo Stadium | Dinamo Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Kirov Stadium | Republican Stadium | Republican Stadium |
| Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 50,125 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 74,000 | Capacity: 100,169 | Capacity: 100,169 |
The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.

## Qualification

Due to the American-led boycott, countries (in brackets) who qualified did not enter the final tournament. Spain sent a team under the IOC flag. The following 16 teams qualified for the 1980 Olympics football tournament:

## Final tournament
### First round
#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 6 |
| Cuba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 4 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| Zambia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |

#### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Syria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |

#### Group D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 |
| Iraq | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 4 |
| Finland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 27 July – Moscow | 27 July – Moscow | | | |
| Soviet Union | 2 | | | |
| Soviet Union | 2 | 29 July – Moscow | 29 July – Moscow | | |
| Kuwait | 1 | 29 July – Moscow | 29 July – Moscow | |
| Kuwait | 1 | Soviet Union | 0 | |
| 27 July – Kiev | 27 July – Kiev | | Soviet Union | 0 | |
| 27 July – Kiev | 27 July – Kiev | East Germany | 1 | |
| East Germany | 4 | East Germany | 1 | |
| East Germany | 4 | | | | 2 August – Moscow | 2 August – Moscow |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | 2 August – Moscow | 2 August – Moscow |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | East Germany | 0 |
| 27 July – Leningrad | 27 July – Leningrad | | | | | East Germany | 0 |
| 27 July – Leningrad | 27 July – Leningrad | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 29 July – Moscow | 29 July – Moscow | | | |
| Cuba | 0 | 29 July – Moscow | 29 July – Moscow | | | |
| Cuba | 0 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| 27 July – Minsk | 27 July – Minsk | | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| 27 July – Minsk | 27 July – Minsk | Yugoslavia | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | Yugoslavia | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | | | | 1 August – Moscow | 1 August – Moscow |
| Algeria | 0 | | | | 1 August – Moscow | 1 August – Moscow |
| Algeria | 0 | | | | Soviet Union | 2 |
| | | | | | Yugoslavia | 0 |

### Gold Medal match

Team details :
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
GK1Stanislav Seman
DF3Josef Mazura
DF2Luděk Macela
DF4Libor Radimec
DF5Zdeněk Rygel
MF14Oldřich Rott
MF8Jan Berger (Sent - Off)
MF16František Štambachr
FW7Ladislav Vízek
FW11Werner Lička
FW10Lubomír Pokluda
Substitutes:
FW9Jindřich Svoboda
MF6Petr Němec
Manager:
František Havránek
GK1Bodo Rudwaleit
DF13Matthias Müller
DF3Lothar Hause
DF12Norbert Trieloff
DF2Artur Ullrich
MF6Rüdiger Schnuphase
MF7Frank Terletzki
MF8Wolfgang Steinbach (Sent - Off)
MF5Frank Baum
FW17Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
FW11Dieter Kühn
Substitutes:
MF14Matthias Liebers
Manager:
Rudolf Krause :
The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.

## Medalists

| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Czechoslovakia Stanislav Seman Luděk Macela Josef Mazura Libor Radimec Zdeněk Rygel Petr Němec Ladislav Vízek Jan Berger Jindřich Svoboda Lubomír Pokluda Werner Lička Rostislav Václavíček Jaroslav Netolička Oldřich Rott Zdeněk Šreiner František Štambacher František Kunzo | East Germany Bodo Rudwaleit Artur Ullrich Lothar Hause Frank Uhlig Frank Baum Rüdiger Schnuphase Frank Terletzki Wolfgang Steinbach Jürgen Bähringer Werner Peter Dieter Kühn Norbert Trieloff Matthias Müller Matthias Liebers Bernd Jakubowski Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | Soviet Union Rinat Dasaev Tengiz Sulakvelidze Alexandre Chivadze Vagiz Khidiyatullin Oleg Romantsev Sergey Shavlo Sergey Andreev Vladimir Bessonov Yuri Gavrilov Fyodor Cherenkov Valeri Gazzaev Vladimir Pilguj Sergej Baltacha Sergei Nikulin Khoren Hovhannisyan Alexandr Prokopenko Revaz Chelebadze |

## Goalscorers

With five goals, Sergey Andreyev of Soviet Union was the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 82 goals were scored by 52 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

### 5 goals

* Sergey Andreyev

### 4 goals

* Ladislav Vízek
* Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
* Fyodor Cherenkov

### 3 goals

* Frank Terletzki
* Faisal Al-Dakhil
* Yuri Gavrilov

### 2 goals

* Lakhdar Belloumi
* Lubomír Pokluda
* Falah Hassan
* Jasem Yaqoub
* Vagiz Khidiyatullin
* Khoren Hovhannisyan
* Iker Zubizarreta
* Miloš Šestić
* Zlatko Vujović
* Zoran Vujović
* Godfrey Chitalu

### 1 goal

* Rabah Madjer
* Chaabane Merzekane
* Benjamin Cardona
* Carlos Molinares
* Omar Arroyo
* Jorge White
* Luis Hernández
* Ramón Núñez
* Andrés Roldán
* Jan Berger
* Werner Lička
* Zdeněk Šreiner
* Jindřich Svoboda
* Jouko Alila
* Jouko Soini
* Ari Tissari
* Lothar Hause
* Dieter Kühn
* Werner Peter
* Rüdiger Schnuphase
* Wolfgang Steinbach
* Hadi Ahmed
* Hussein Saeed
* Henry Nwosu
* Marcos Alonso Peña
* Hipólito Rincón
* Oleg Romantsev
* Sergey Shavlo
* Volodymyr Bessonov
* Robert Elie
* Dževad Šećerbegović
* Boro Primorac
* Ante Miročević

### Own goals

* Mahboub Mubarak (playing against Nigeria)

## Final ranking

Below the final ranking after the end of the tournament.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 10 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 10 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 | Kuwait (KUW) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
| 6 | Iraq (IRQ) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 |
| 7 | Cuba (CUB) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 4 |
| 8 | Algeria (ALG) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
| 9 | Finland (FIN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| 10 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| 12 | Venezuela (VEN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| 13 | Nigeria (NGR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| 14 | Syria (SYR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |
| 15 | Zambia (ZAM) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
| 16 | Costa Rica (CRC) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 |